Epson Stylus Photo R1800

The Windows driver software looks very much like other Epson printer drivers,
except it's now only three sections instead of four. Across the top
are "tabs" to jump between the sections of the driver; Main, Page
Layout and Maintenance.

The Main page lets you select the Quality Option (Draft, Text, Text & Image,
Photo and Best Photo. See below for the other main options.

The PhotoEnhance option lets you adjust settings for digital camera images.
You can set more adjustments by clicking on the Advanced button for the Main page.
Tone settings are: Auto Correct, Sepia, Neutral Gray, Warm Gray and Cool Gray.
Digital Camera Correction (On or Off), if it's On then you can also select the
Smooth Skin option.

The Advanced options for the Main page.
If you selected Photo you now have options for Photo, Best Photo or Photo RPM.
Color Management shown here with the Color Controls enabled, lets you set a
specific Gamma value as well as adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation
and the primary Cyan, Magenta and Yellow colors. The Color Mode can be Epson
Standard, Epson Vivid or Adobe RGB. PhotoEnhance was explained above.
The ICM
(Intelligent Color Management) option lets you use profiles for specific media
types, Epson supplies one for all of their paper types or you can create a custom
profile with optional color matching software applications.

The Maintenance page lets you start the Status Monitor, run Nozzle Checks, Head
Cleaning, Align Printhead and see the Printer and Option Information. Clicking
on the Speed & Progress button gives you options for High Speed Copies, Disable
Status Monitor, Always Spool RAW Datatype, Show Progress Meter, set the temp
folder for High Speed Copy cache and set your Monitoring Preferences for error
messages, low-ink alerts and etc.

Whenever you have an active print job the Epson Status Monitor pops up and shows
you the current ink levels and the progress of the printing. You can also click
on the "Epson Printing Tips" button to read about ways to improve your printing
speed and quality.

Clicking on the "Details" button from the Status Monitor
will bring up this info page. Here you can see the name and model # for the ink
cartridges and their manufacture dates.

If you have enabled the "ink low" warning then this screen will popup whenever one
of your ink cartridges is getting low.

Checking the "Print Preview" option on the Main page is always a good idea.
I use the print preview function as my last visual confirmation that I have selected
the proper orientation and printing format. Unfortunately the Epson print preview
does not have a ruler scale or indicate the chosen paper size which would really
help you make sure that you also selected the right media type and size.

The EPSON Easy Photo Print application is just that, an easy way for you to
preview and print your digital photos. The "Select Photos" page is a
thumbnail viewer where you visually browse your photos and select those that
you want to print.

After selecting the photos to print you then go to the "Select Paper" page and
pick the size and type of media (paper) that you will be printing on, the
style (borderless or bordered) and the print mode.

The "Layout and Print" page lets you adjust the image to fill the page or zoom-in
to a particular area. You can also print multiple images per page if desired.
When you have the layout set the way you want it just click on the PRINT button
and you're done !

This is the Photoshop PRINT Image Matching II file import filter. You enable it
from Photoshop's FILE menu:
This
import filter will only display JPEG or TIFF files that have valid PIM info embedded in
the Exif header. You can select one file for import or check the "Import
consecutively" option to select more than one image file.
Photoshop does not retain the PIM information separately in the JPEG's header
file when you import your PIM image. Instead it converts that information in the
file and embeds a color space called EPSON RGB 2001. This profile supports all the
PIM color advantages and enhancements.
The PIM II plug-in works with Photoshop CS, 7.0 and Photoshop Elements 3.0.
The required ICC profiles for the Stylus R1800 are installed with the
plug-in (Windows) or the printer driver (Macintosh).

The Stylus Photo R1800 is the first 13-inch-wide format printer in the U.S. capable
of printing directly onto inkjet printable CDs or DVDs. Users simply place these
disks in the printer's front-loading CD tray and path.
Users can create their own
CD or DVD designs, or utilize colorful backgrounds and images with the included Epson
Print CD software.